Dear Dana

Dear Dana

That time I went crazy and wrote all 580 of my Facebook friends a handwritten letter

by Amy Weinland Daughters

Pub Date 17 May 2022

She Writes Press

Biographies & Memoirs

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Amy Daughters reconnected with her old pal Dana on Facebook, she had no idea how it would change her life. The two women hadn’t had any contact in thirty years, it didn’t take them long to catch up — and when Amy learned that Dana’s son Parker was doing a second stint at St. Jude battling cancer, she was suddenly inspired to begin writing the pair weekly letters.

After Dana’s Son Parker died Amy — not knowing what else to do — continued to write Dana. Eventually, Dana wrote back, and the two became pen pals, sharing things through the mail that they had never shared before. The richness of the experience left Amy wondering something: If my life could be so changed by someone I considered “just a Facebook friend,” what would happen if I wrote all my Facebook friends a letter?

Amy wrote all 580 of her Facebook friends a handwritten letter, an act that would change Amy’s life and most of…